The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.